macOS Monterey is blocking port 5000
This happened today. I couldn't start my Rust server because port 5000 was already occupied. But by whom? 🤔 I did some digging, and I got something like this:
$ lsof -i :5000
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
ControlCe 1677 user 32u IPv4 0x728ff8e52d51c6dd 0t0 TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN)
ControlCe 1677 user 33u IPv6 0x728ff8e51d98ec65 0t0 TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN)
Hmm? I tried to kill the process but that didn't help. It took me a while to research that the culprit is macOS Monterey (I didn't start the server ever since I upgraded to this macOS version): https://stackoverflow.com/q/69868760/3135248
Solution: Go to System Preference --> Sharing --> uncheck off the "AirPlay Receiver"
WTF